Jarek column: Earth history locked in the rocks

4:30 PM,
Aug. 16, 2013

Written by

Margaret Jarek
For Action Reporter Media

Whenever I'm blessed with the opportunity of being in the presence of some towering rock formation, I feel an overwhelming sense of awe sweep over me in wave upon wave of astonished wonder.

For the first peoples of this continent who encountered such formations these places became sacred. Their world view made them profoundly aware of the spiritual energy that emanates forth out of these ancient formations.

In their cosmology they viewed them as the dwelling places of their ancestors; the places where the spirits of the ancestors resided. ...